Home/ Questions/Q 8546515
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-11T13:02:42+00:00

i use preg_mach for extract some html ( i try to use DOMDocument but

  • 0

i use preg_mach for extract some html ( i try to use DOMDocument but i had some problem with new line )
any way … that’s my code ..

1.html

<body>


            <!-- icon and title -->
            <div class="smallfont">
                <img class="inlineimg" src="images/icons/icon1.gif" alt="" border="0" />
                <strong>qrtoobah 3nwan</strong>
            </div>
            <hr size="1" style="color:#CCCCCC; background-color:#CCCCCC" />
            <!-- / icon and title -->


        <div id="post_message_14142536">

            <font size="7"><font color="red">msaha 700</font></font><br />
<font size="7"><font color="red">shamali 20</font></font><br />
<font size="7"><font color="red"> 1700 almetr</font></font><br />
<font size="7"><font color="#ff0000">sooom bs</font></font><br />
<font size="7"><font color="#ff0000">albee3 qreeb</font></font>
        </div>
        <!-- message -->


</body>

extract.php

<?php 
$html = file_get_contents("1.html");
$pattern = '/<([!]+)([^]+).*>([^]+)(message\ \-\-\>)/';
   preg_match($pattern, $html, $matches);
 print_r($matches);


?>

i want to get any thing between <!-- icon and title -->)blablabla(<!-- / message -->…
but i get that array :

Array ( [0] => [1] => ! [2] => -- [3] => message --> )
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Use strpos to find first tag position. Then find ending tag also with strpos. I mean – if u know from where to what you are looking for and they are unique.. so what matter in preg_* functions?

    So i guess something like this will work fine (I make code clear as possible for understanding my idea in step-by-step actions):

    $tag_begin = "<!-- icon and title -->";
$tag_end   = "<!-- message -->";
$begin     = strpos($tag_begin,$text)+strlen($tag_begin);
$end       = strpos($tag_end,$text);
$result    = substr($begin,$end, $text);

    Also u can do exactly the same if u want find and store all structures between opening <!-- (.*) --> and closing <!-- / (.*) -->.
    Only change u must do – first find with preg_match all opening structures names. For example:

    $result_cnt = preg_match_all('#<!-- [^/].*-->#', $text , $openings);

// Output for your example HTML is:
$openings = 
array (
  0 => 
  array (
    0 => '<!-- icon and title -->',
    1 => '<!-- message -->',
  ),
)

    After that one-loop for $openings and find with code above all needed. just adding to openings closing “/” chacter in right place.

    • 0